Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

No compression loss, just lousy interest rate.

We were getting 2.32% but I suspect it will go down yet again.

[Rick V]

Yeah I pulled all my CD's about 2 years ago. Paying off stuff yielded a better use of interest rate savings than interest bearing.
CD's won't be worthy for a few more years
Evening D

[porsche4life]

Someone smack me HARD now... I am currently chasing a lead on a 951 and at the same time talking a possible trade on the VW for an '84 944... That boy needs to come to Jeebus on his price though... no '84 is worth 6k

[porsche4life]

Glen that was a good Powerpoint.... I may still kick your ass tomorrow for that first one though... You send it to any of the other guys... I wanna know how much help I'm gunna have....

[porsche4life]

[Geronimo '74]

Goooood morning boys.
Another day at the office.....

[porsche4life]

Do this work? 


Sadly no....

[porsche4life]

Morning G!


What up?

[Schumi]

Sid if I manage to trailer a formula car down there this summer, would those PCA folks let me run it on that course? It would be SCCA rules compliant.

I can taste 3G's on that course.

And could better those 911's runs by more than 15 seconds....

[porsche4life]

Schumi I will talk to my a/x chair tomorrow night about it but I bet he would... He's like a damn little kid... He would be in HEAVEN I imagine... He's a really cool guy.... I bet we can set you up with lodging too.... Your welcome to stay with me but I'm an hour west of the city....

[porsche4life]

Ok Schumi.... See what logic you have here.... I am trying to get rid of the corrado and get another water pumper.... There are 2 in the area that interest me.... One is an '84... Looks slick in the pictures and comes with records from the best Porsche shop in OKC he is asking 6k but I bet I can talk some sense into him.... The other is an '86 951 with absolutely no records.... He wants 2800... Isn't giving me much info in emails... Going to call him tomorrow.... He is fixing to get shipped off so he needs it gone.... Buy it, trailer home and do a belt job right away? W/e I buy will be my dd.... Pictures of the 2 in question soon...

[slodave]

I think you need to invest your money in a lot of asphalt.

[porsche4life]

Only pic of the '84.... Will need to go see it... May do that tomorrow....



'86 951





So confused....

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by slodave

I think you need to invest your money in a lot of asphalt.

I can't DD asphalt.... What would I do with asphalt?

[svandamme]

a 2.8K 951 will need 5 K work done to it.

[slodave]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

I can't DD asphalt.... What would I do with asphalt?

Sneak onto the course late night and pave the grass over.

[porsche4life]

Dave do you know how much asphalt 4k buys? Barely enough to park a car on....

[svandamme]

you'll get more square feet of asphalt if you have it done by gipsies.

[Schumi]

I don't like the wheels on the 86. If it's an 86 it needs fuchs. That said it's not like it's hard to find phone dials cheap.

The 86 951's are the lightest. They also have a different ECU and wiring than the later 951's. Along with the different front spindles I believe.

If you would go the modding route (which, with a 951, is a no brainer) then an 86 951 isn't a bad car to start with.

If you can talk the 944 owner down to 5K (which is reasonable, but he probably won't go lower) then that means it's still 2200 more than the 951. That 951 plus 2200 can be reliable, and a bit of a screamer compare to your current car.

So at that point I would pick based on the condition of the body and interior.

Records on either car are potentially meaningless to me as they should be to you- you have your other Porsche as a daily driver and so no reason not to do all the work on the new car yourself, downtime regardless. As long as theres no major troubles with the K26 on the 86, which I would doubt.

Also, I've told myself that I won't ever own an early car (84) as a street car again, as I'm pretty tired of the 1970's dash and buttons. However from a race car point of view, the earlier the better due to weight, except in two areas: the fuel tank (late plastic is better) and the wheel offset/hubs (the later is better IMO.). The early steel control arms are better for racing due to their failure mode and low cost. Unfortunately the early steel rear trailing arms (did 84's have these? Maybe that was only 82/83's...) suck as far as structure and stiffness goes. The later 951 cast aluminum ones are much better.

This all leads to why I still think the 924S is the best N/A racing platform of the bunch- it combines the good parts from the late cars with the lightweight, good parts from the old cars. Early steel control arms, late 951 trailing arms, late offset hubs, rebuildable strut housings, lighter dash, simpler electronics, etc etc etc.



Anyways... back to your choices... If the 951 isn't a s*** pile and you have extra budget on top that asking price to do some preventative maintenance on it (~2K), I'd go that route.

[porsche4life]

I'm leaning towards the 951.... If I like the looks and the way the owner talks.... W/e I get out of the Corrado will go to this... So hopefully about 4k at first... I feel like I can talk both of them down... Neither seem too familiar with these cars... eg... the 951 guy can't get the hatch open... Thats easy....